Undergarment of the bloomer type



March 25; 1924. ,487,971

M.D.NE&SON

UNDERGARMENT OF THE BLOOMER TYPE Fild July 15 1922 INVENTOR. MARY D. NEILSON" EYWWMW A 7' TORNE Y6.

Fatented Mar. 25, 1924.

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MARY D. NEILSON, OF MIRNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

UNDEBGARMENT OF THE BLOOIVIEB TYPE.

Application filed July 15,

To all whom it may concern: v

Be it known that I, MARY D. NmLsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Undergarrhents of the Bloomer Type, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to undergarments of the bloomer type and has for its object to provide an undergarment or bloomer adapted to be slipped up over the hips and secured around the waist, preferably by an elastic band, and which is so constructed as to give increased fullness at the crotch, articularly directly back from the me ian line at the center of the front in conjunction with a short and straight front to the garment. The garment embodying my ini vention may be conveniently fabrlcated of three pieces only, to-wit, aback member and a air of specially shaped front members a apted to be sewed to the edges of the back member and to be sewed together 2 and to a bottom portion ofthe back member to provide legs and provide therequisite fullness; or the garment may be out in a single piece which embodies the back member and the two front members, the front members being provided with portions for union to ether and for union with a portion of t e back member to provide a garment having legs and a short front and crotch fullness extending directly back at substantially right angles from the median line of the front. Y

The full objects and advantages of 'my invention will appear inconnection with the detailed description thereof and the novel features of the invention are particu: larly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, which illustrate the application of my invention in one form,-

Fig.1 shows the garment in use upon a wearer in an extreme sitting position. Fig. 2 shows the garment in use upon a wearer in an extreme standing position. Figs. 3, e and 5 are pattern'views of the unassembled members of the garment when the curved bottom edge 14- of the member 11,

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same is made up of three pieces. Fi 6 is r a pattern view of the members of Figs. 3, 4- and 5' in relative position but not united. Fig. 7 is a pattern view of theconstruction of Fig. 6 showing how the garment may be cut from a single piece and obtain substantially the advantages as where it is made from three pieces.

As illustrated, the back member 10 is provided with side edges 11, 12, preferably cut straight with a top edge 13 slightly curved, at with a concave bottom edge 14 and with two straight edges 15, 16 extending angularly between the respective side edges 11, 12 and bottom edge 14:, the side edges being angularly disposed so that the top portion is of less width than the bottom portion. The front pieces 17, 18 are symmetrically formed as shown of substantlally,rectangular shape with side edges 19, 20, bottom edges 21, 22, top edges 23, 2% and inner side edges 25, 26. From about the center -of the edges 25 and 26 the material is out back substantially at right angles to said edges as indicated at 27, 28, leaving inwardly-cut edge portions 29, 30. In fabricating the garment the edge 11 is sewed to the edge 19, being gathered to produce a side seam of the length of ed e 19, and thereby producing fullness at the ack: The edge 12 is similarly sewed to edge 20, and edges 27, 29 of piece 17 are sewed to edges 28, 30 of piece 18, the uniting point of edges 29 and 30, producing a central front seam as indicated at 31 in Fig. 1. The edges 25, 26 are then sewed to the the leg openings being formed by the circumferential extent of the material comprised in the extent of the bottom ed es 15, 21 and 16, 22 of the respective si e and back pieces 17, 10 and 18, 10. The siniilar'co .member made by the union of edges 25 and 26 with edge 14 is shown at 32 in Figs. 1 and 2, while the union formed between portions 27, 28 extending rectangularly from edges 25, 26 is shown at 33 in Fig. 1.

The efiect of the union .of edges 29, 30 is, as stated, to make a straight short seam directly down the median line of the front extendin of the arment, whichcontinues into the union 0 offset portions 27, 28 backwardat the crotch in t e 'seam 33 at substantially a right angle to the seam 31, throwing the material backward so as to produce a great increase of fullness in the garment at the back and in the crotch where it is needed, leaving the front of the garment with a short straightline from the waist and with no excess of material or bagging effect.

In the construction of Fig. 7 the fulling together of side seams 11, 19 and 12, 20 is eliminated, the side or front portions being formed integral with the back portion and eliminatin thatunion, as is clearly shown in dotted 'nes in Fig. 7, but the edges 25, 27, 29 and 26, 28, 30, and bottom edge 14, are identically the same in the single piece member as in that fabricated from three pieces and are united in the same manner, giving the strai ht front seam 31, the transversely-exten ed back seam 32 and the backwardly-turnedseam 33 in exactly the same way as is done where the three pieces are employed. Owing to the fact that the use'of the three pieces permits side fulling, the garment may be fitted somewhat more accurately and give greater fullness at the back by using three pieces, but in the provision of extra material at the crotch directly back from the median line of t e front of the garment, the onepiece construction produces exactly the same results as the three-piece construction.

I claim:

1. A bloomer garment comprising back and front portions, the back portion having a centrally-disposed curved bottom edge, thefront portions being provided with symmetrically-disposed edges each formed with upper'and lower portions extending in paralle relation but being offset by increased width of material in the lower parts and being connected by an edge portion extendingsubstantially at right angles to the first named edge portions, the upper and connectin I edge (portions being united to one anot er, an the lower edge portions being united to the curved edge of the'back portion, whereby legs are formed with crotch fullness extending directly back from the centerline of the front of the garment.

2.- A bloomer garment comprising back and front portions united together so as to provide a bottom edge with two symmetrical ortions extending angularly to the median ne thereof, and a central edge portion between the an larly-disposed bottom edge ortions, the ront portions of the garment ing provided with symmetrically-dis osed edges each formed with upper and lower portions extending substantially at right angles to the symmetrical portions of the bottom edge, but being offset by increased width of material in the lower parts of the edges and a composite bottom edge consisting of two portions each angularly extended from one of said side edges in symmetrical relation to the whole back member and of a continuous central portion extending between the symmetrically disposed portions and making at its ends the same angles with each of said symmetrically disposed portions, a pair of front members having side and bottom edges and united with the side edges of the back member so that said bottom edges form a continuation of the symmetrical parts of the bottom edges of the back member, said front members having other side edges substantially parallel with the first-named side edges and comprising offset parallel portions connected 'by portions extending substan-' tially at right angles thereto, the up er and connecting edge portions being unite to one another, and the lower edge portions being united to the centrally-disposed edge of the back member, whereby legs are formed with croth fullness extending directly back from the center line of the front of the garment.

4. A bloomergarment comprising a back with a pair of symmetrical extensions at the sides thereof, and having a continuous centrally positioned bottom edge portion, the extent of material along the top to bottom center line of said back being substantially as great-as the greatest top to bottom extent of material of said extensions, each of said extensions having increased width of material along their sides at the lower parts thereof with a side edge length corresponding to one-half the length of saidbottom edge, to which the respective side edges of said increased width of material are sewed to form the legs of the garment, the remainder of the side edges of the extensions being sewed together along the median line of the front ofthe garment.

5. A bloomer garment comprising a back 7 back member, each of said front members having increased width of material along its of the front members heing sewed together side at the lower part thereof with side along the median line of the front of the garedge length corresponding to" one-half of merit. 10

6 respective side edges of said increased width signature.

of material are sewed to form the legs of the garment, the remainder of the'side edges MARY De NEILSON.

the length of said bottom edge, to which the In testimony whereof I hereunto afix my 

